Answer: x = 1.28 or -1.28
How about "miles per hour?" I drive "45 miles per hour" on my way into town.
That's a unit rate.
Did you know that 2 pints = 1 quart? You could write this rate / ratio as
2 pints
---------
1 qt
or as
(1/2 qt)
----------- this is a measure of one quantity per unit of another quantity.
1 pint
Fredrick’s data set contains an outlier.
The mean value is about 12.6 home runs.
The median describes Fredrick’s data more accurately than the mean.
Substitute the value of y in the equation as -1,
(-1)^2-31(-1)-17 = 1+31-17 = 15